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Doggramma 07-03-2014 10:53 AM

Don't get me going on sanitation! I saw someone at the grocery store wearing plastic gloves, but then was scratching their nose with their glove. Why are people so unsanitary?

DogHouseMom 07-03-2014 10:53 AM

On of my quirks about bread is that I will not store (or buy bread sold in) plastic wrapping. I like bread with a crust on it and if it's stored in plastic the crust goes soft or even soggy if the bread was packaged while still warm.

Good crusty bread needs to be stored in paper. It's becoming increasingly difficult to find, even in "bread specialty" places. For example I went to Panera Bread recently and ordered a Sour Dough Round - unsliced. The clerk attempted to put it into a plastic bag and I told her no way .. PAPER. I had to explain to her why. Really. A bread shop should know better.

Iraxy 07-03-2014 11:08 AM

I somehow arrange my food so that I finish the last bite with a little bit of everything on my plate. As far as food preparation quirks, I have to have very clean hands and a clean kitchen to work in. My daughters laugh at me for this but they too have picked up this habit and comment if they go somewhere that does not practice this. They have gone without eating while visiting if the kitchen was not clean. Or they cleaned it themselves under the guise of helping the hostess. Weird.

mollymunchkin 07-03-2014 08:17 PM


Originally Posted by ladydukes (Post 6784225)
Debbie JJ, I LOVE okra...both fried or boiled, or in gumbo. We moved to WA state in 2009, and cannot for the life of me find fresh okra. No one here likes it, or so I'm told. I think in the five years we've been here, I found fresh okra one time at an outside fruit/vegetable stand. So, when we travel to TX during summer months, I eat all I can, well...I try! We plan to move back to TX when our house sells, and when we do, we are planting OKRA!

My guess as to why you don't find fresh okra in WA is it doesn't get hot enough for it to grow. Okra likes the heat of TX. I love a mess of pan fried okra.

DebbieJJ 07-04-2014 04:25 AM


Originally Posted by Sewnoma (Post 6784342)

When I slice onions, I periodically rinse my knife and the uncut part of the onion bulb under cool water. Again, DH thinks I'm crazy but I swear it cuts down on how much my eyes water.

Tomatoes - if I'm going to be dicing a lot of tomatoes I dunk them in an ice water bath for awhile first, so they're firmer and easier to cut. I learned that from working fast food, of all things.

Good idea about the tomatoes, especially if they're very ripe, which is when I really love them! About the onions, I read somewhere that if you make your very 1st cut from the root end, then you won't cry as much. I tried it, and it works for me.......:) I make this 1st cut to start peeling the onion on the root end and just keep cutting from that end.

Peckish 07-05-2014 03:14 PM


Originally Posted by Doggramma (Post 6784594)
Don't get me going on sanitation! I saw someone at the grocery store wearing plastic gloves, but then was scratching their nose with their glove. Why are people so unsanitary?

About three times a year, I'll be in the produce section and someone will sneeze on the vegetables - and not even attempt to cover their face. And every single dad-gum time it's been a man!! I've got to come up with a snappy comment to make. Maybe Sandygirl can help me, she usually comes up with good one-liners. :D


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